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Re: Curiosity: Perl File Extension in Emacs Config
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Xah Lee |
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Re: Curiosity: Perl File Extension in Emacs Config |
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Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:10:50 -0700 (PDT) |
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heh, John Bokma!
thanks.
Xah
On Friday, July 13, 2012 12:55:25 PM UTC-7, John Bokma wrote:
> Xah Lee writes:
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> > what's the “.al” for?
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> "As an example, if POSIX.pm is located in
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/POSIX.pm, AutoLoader will look for perl
> subroutines POSIX in /usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/POSIX/*.al, where the
> .al file has the same name as the subroutine, sans package. If such a
> file exists, AUTOLOAD will read and evaluate it, thus (presumably)
> defining the needed subroutine. AUTOLOAD will then goto the newly
> defined subroutine."
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> http://perldoc.perl.org/AutoLoader.html
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> --
> John Bokma j3b
>
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